Picture-based password schemes have their weaknesses (Threat.com)
Researchers Ziming Zhao, Gail-Joon Ahn, Jeong-Jin Seo from Arizona State University and Hongxin Hu from Delaware State University are looking at how human cognition plays into picture-based authentication, especially around picture selection and what areas on an image a person is likely to use for their authentication scheme. Ahn is a professor, Zhao a doctoral student and Seo a master’s student in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering.

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